For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

To be different is not necessarily to be ugly; to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong. The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin to look and talk and act and think alike.

In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.

Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.